This week, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly told staff and agency leaders to continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels, and restaurants, despite issuing a guidance to exempt those locations from ICE raids just days earlier.
An email sent from a DHS official reportedly asked agents to “hold on all worksite enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.”
However, after pushback from the Trump administration, this guidance has been reversed and ICE has been instructed to carry out deportations in these settings.
White House Deputy Chief Opposes Exceptions for Certain Industries
The Trump administration has been placing pressure on ICE to deliver Trump’s goal of enacting the largest domestic deportation operation in history, which White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller describes as a minimum of 3,000 arrests per day.
Miller reportedly opposes allowing exceptions for the farming, hospitality, and food industries. Conversely, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins has stressed to Trump that the exceptions should remain in place.
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